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The Room in the Tower, and Other Stories
This collection primarily focuses on themes of the uncanny, exploring the hidden fears and psychological anxieties that arise from the unseen and the supernatural.
"The Room in the Tower" by E. F. Benson is a collection of supernatural short stories. This collection primarily focuses on themes of the uncanny, exploring the hidden fears and psychological anxieties that arise from the unseen and the supernatural.
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IT is probable that everybody who is at all a constant dreamer has had at least one experience of an event or a sequence of circumstances which have come to his mind in sleep being subsequently realised in the material world. But, in my opinion, so far from this being a strange thing, it would be far odder if this fulfilment did not occasionally happen, since our dreams are, as a rule, concerned with people whom we know and places with which we are familiar, such as might very naturally occur in the awake and day-lit world. True, these dreams are often broken into by some absurd and fantastic incident, which puts them out of court in regard to their subsequent fulfilment, but on the mere calculation of chances, it does not appear in the least unlikely that a dream imagined by anyone who dreams constantly should occasionally come true. Not long ago, for instance, I experienced such a fulfilment of a dream which seems to me in no way remarkable and to have no kind of psychical significance. The manner of it was as follows.
Contents
- 01The Room in the Tower
- 02The Dust-Cloud
- 03Gavon’s Eve
- 04The Confession of Charles Linkworth
- 05At Abdul Ali’s Grave
- 06The Shootings of Achnaleish
- 07How Fear Departed from the Long Gallery
- 08Caterpillars
- 09The Cat
- 10The Bus-Conductor
- 11The Man Who Went Too Far
- 12Between the Lights
- 13Outside the Door
- 14The Terror by Night
- 15The Other Bed
- 16The Thing in the Hall
- 17The House with the Brick-Kiln
About this edition
- Author
- E. F. Benson
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 227 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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